Word: timely
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...that has both complicated and weakened and made more interesting the institution of marriage. Anybody who thinks that we're going to return to some sort of more tribal, feudal version of building marriages is operating from a very strange compass indeed. (Read about Elizabeth Gilbert in the TIME...
...contradiction that we very much love this person but sometimes we absolutely cannot tolerate their company at all. I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other...
...Right, isn't fancier technology or more training. It's as simple as an old-fashioned checklist, like those used by pilots, restaurateurs and construction engineers. When his research team introduced one in eight hospitals in 2008, major surgery complications dropped 36% and deaths plunged 47%. Gawande talked to TIME about why checklists work, what's wrong with medical school and what's next for health care reform. (See TIME's Wellness blog...
...think most doctors would expect that? No. A lot of the reaction is, 'My God, another piece of paperwork? It's just a waste of time.' We had 20% in our surveys [of doctors who adopted the checklist in a study] that still felt it was a pain, a waste of time; they didn't want to use it. Of course, we asked them a follow-up question: If they were having an operation, would they want the checklist? And 94% of them...
...grounds that checklists take too long. Do they? If they're badly designed. One of the fascinating things to me was going to visit Boeing's checklist factory, where they make over 100 checklists a year and design them in ways that pilots can actually use them in a time crush. They helped us design ours. We set a target that no step along the way would take more than 60 seconds and the whole process should be, in routine situations, under two minutes total. The Mayo Clinic adopted the checklist that we designed. And they actually reduced their operating...